Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training a group of young people, mostly unemployed, here at Watermelon College in the South, with the intention of dispatching them to New York City to correct the deplorable conditions existing in Harlem. We are sure that the good people of New York will greet our crusaders with the same enthusiasm that the people of Mississippi have displayed toward their do-gooder visitors from Ohio...
...perfection. The Atlas booster took off from Cape Kennedy as routinely as a commuter leaving for the railroad station. After the Atlas dropped off, the Agena second stage put Ranger VII in a parking orbit, and twenty-two minutes later, the Agena fired again, giving the spacecraft the correct speed and direction to take it to a rendezvous with the moon...
...that cannot be seen from the earth. Any pictures it might take would be not much use for future astronauts, who will want to land on the visible side. A radio command was sent from J.P.L.'s Goldstone station in the Mojave Desert telling the spacecraft how to correct its course...
When a hyperimaginative CORE leader named Herbert Callender tried to arrest New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner a few weeks ago, he was operating on the correct assumption that everyone has a common-law right to perform a "citizen's arrest." As Callender saw it, His Honor was guilty of a felony-misappropriating public funds by allowing racial discrimination on city-sponsored construction projects. Callender was arrested for disorderly conduct and carted off to Bellevue Hospital for mental observation. Though he was soon released from the hospital (in time to face a court hearing this week...
Either a sympathetic or an unsympathetic interpretation would probably be justified, and either would be interesting to see. MacLean is probably "correct" in choosing neither. At the same time I wonder why he balances these two extremes with an almost total absence of gesture or inflection, and relies solely on his rich voice to sound noble and tough...